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Germans are debating whether migrants and people with an immigrant background may be more at risk of contracting coronavirus. There are no reliable figures, but one thing is certain: poor people are in greater danger.
COVID: Poverty a higher risk factor than ethnicity
Germans are debating whether migrants and people with an immigrant background may be more at risk of contracting coronavirus. There are no reliable figures, but one thing is certain: poor people are in greater danger.
Poverty is a risk factor for contracting the coronavirus and developing severe symptoms
A shocking report appeared in Germany s largest tabloid
Bild last week: The majority of those people treated in hospitals with coronavirus in Germany are migrants or belong to immigrant families.
The source of these claims were conversations overheard by the newspaper that took place between the president of Germany s disease agency, the Robert Koch Institute (RKI), Lothar Wieler, and the chief physicians of several large hospitals.The hospital chiefs allegedly reported that up to 90% of people win the intensive care units had an immigration background.
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